Ron Athey with Hermes Pittakos, Elliot Reed, and Mecca present a program of 3 actions.
Elliot Reed opens the even with a word action.
Spinning Brion Gysin’s Pistol Poem from 1960, a 5 x 5 grid of random permutations of 5 spoken and punctuated by recorded pistol shots and 5 varying distances, 5 minutes, choreograph for 4.
Printing Press. The 90s original brought back on Athey’s chest, this was redone in 2018 for CYCLIC, a program in which the artist Cassils brought Athey and Fanaa into the Biosphere 2, brought back printing press for World AIDS Day. In t his edition Pittakos will do the carving and Reed and Mecca hanging up the prints. Read my “The Polemic of Blood” for more thoughts ;) https://walkerart.org/magazine/ron-athey-blood-polemic-post-aids-body or Bradford Nordeen’s https://www.frieze.com/article/blood-lung-ron-athey-cassils-and-fanaa-conjure-ritual-body-arizona-deserts-biosphere-2
The plan is to show CCTV of performance through a special window treatment and on sidewalk and also the gallery’s twitch channel. posting more info here or check Participant Inc.’s website
Paul King and Hermes Pittakos printing “horns of consecration” on Athey’s chest, CYCLIC at Biosphere 2, World AIDS Day 2018